Quotes about women

A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There is in every true woman’s heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

Washington Irving

Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.

Charles Caleb Colton

A woman can become a man’s friend only in the following stages – first an acquantaince, next a mistress, and only then a friend.

Anton Chekhov

There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

Virginia Woolf

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can’t buy love with gifts or favors, you can’t hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can’t be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

B. F. Skinner

Women have become stronger, and there’s a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.

Yoko Ono

Most people assume that women are responsible for households and child care. Most couples operate that way – not all. That fundamental assumption holds women back.

Sheryl Sandberg

A woman is fascinated not by art but by the noise made by those in the field.

Anton Chekhov

I can’t figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

Rodney Dangerfield